You're not just this person who's from your own specific experiences, but the collective experience of what makes you who you are because of time.

I'm not trying to spell out a story. I still think you feel the painting, and the reason you read the mark is because you also feel the mark.

That's what I'm interested in: the space in between, the moment of imagining what is possible and yet not knowing what that is.

I don't ever work in a way where something is an illustration of an event, but when something is occurring at the same time I see it as very informed by that.

When you're not a mom, you can get up in the middle of the night, paint, sleep all morning... you can't do that when you have two children!

I'm really interested in the nondefinitive element of abstraction.

I always wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know how someone could make a life out it.

Race always comes up in the conversation of Detroit.

I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.

You can only mend the vase so many times before you have to chuck it away.

My own training is in the field of neuroendocrinology and I really became very fascinated many years ago with the molecules of emotion, molecules that we call neuropeptides.

Sometimes I think I know everything, but I also underestimate what God really is.

Energy is under siege by the Obama administration.

We are each the masters of our own reality; when we become self-aware to this: absolutely anything in the world is possible.

People want to see the car crash instead of the race. But, when you're the one in the car that's crashing, it's not much fun. I'm enjoying the race.

The beginning of wisdom is the beginning of supernatural power.

You cannot endure what you never enjoy!